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Suggested Readings on Zen

General Readings:
  • Taking the Path of Zen by Robert Aitken
  • Questions to a Zen Master by Taisen Deshimaru
  • The Ring of the Way by Taisen Deshimaru (out of print)
  • The Voice of the Valley by Taisen Deshimaru
  • Returning to Silence by Dainin Katagiri
  • You Have to Say Something by Dainin Katagiri
  • Wherever You Go, There You Are by Jon Kabat-Zinn
  • Dropping Ashes on the Buddha by Seung Sahn
  • Zen Mind, Beginner's Mind by Shunryu Suzuki
And works by/about Zen master Dogen and Soto Zen:
  • Shobogenzo: Zen Essays by Dogen translated by Thomas Cleary
  • Timeless Spring: A Soto Zen Anthology ed. & trans. by Thomas Cleary
  • How to Raise an Ox by Francis Dojun Cook
  • Sounds of Valley Streams by Francis Cook
  • Zen Master Dogen by Yuho Yokoi & Daizen Victoria